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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Larry Welshon
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Larry Welshon
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Larry Welshon
Let Them Emerge
Larry Welshon
Let Them Emerge
Larry Welshon
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Larry Welshon
The Many Paths to Learning
Marc Gallivan
The Many Paths to Learning
Marc Gallivan
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Marc Gallivan
A Unique Education: How AVS's Self-Directed Learning Led Me to a Career in Tech
Guest Post
A Unique Education: How AVS's Self-Directed Learning Led Me to a Career in Tech
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Honoring the Heart's Voice
Marc Gallivan
Honoring the Heart's Voice
Marc Gallivan
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Marc Gallivan
The Journey From Student to Staff: Four Stories
Marc Gallivan
The Journey From Student to Staff: Four Stories
Marc Gallivan
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Marc Gallivan
 
What a week. 🌞 Our last photo post of the year — can you believe it? The final day of the 2025-26 school year is next Thursday, and we're soaking up every last bit of it. This week we cracked open the brand new yearbooks and got completely l
What a week! 🎱 Last Friday, our alumni came together for Victory Pie — a pool tournament fundraiser that welcomed the brand new class of 2026 graduates into our alumni community. Players could pay for advantages (or disadvantages!) in the gam
✨ A peek into our week at AVS ✨ The Flying Dutchman has officially docked! One of our students put the finishing touches on this paper boat masterpiece, which now holds court on the Main Room table. Between rain showers, we got plenty of outside ga
What a week! 📸 The yearbook is officially done and headed to the printers — graduation photos, portraits, and all. Watching it come together has been such a joy. In between, students played massive schoolwide rounds of Among Us in Real Life,
ACE Scholarships are available for Colorado families — and the deadline is April 15th! 💛 If you've been dreaming about a different kind of education for your child, this is worth a look. Qualifying families can receive $3,000–$4,000 to
What a week! 🌟 Perogies in the kitchen. Cardboard armor taking over the art room. Slime experiments that *absolutely* had to happen outside. A cozy new "kid nook" in the Main Room that has already been claimed by everyone who sits in it.
Another week in the books at Alpine Valley School 🎶 Hoops outside. Band rehearsal in the theater (they are giving their big performance today). Cardboard creations taking over the art room. One student channeling her inner designer by bedazzling he
Sunshine, water balloons, and cardboard knights — just another week at Alpine Valley School. 🌞 Here's what we were up to: The warm weather called us outside all week. We had water balloon fights, soaked up the sunshine, and experimented with
What a week! ☀️ Spring sunshine brought out the best in our community — basketball games, rousing rounds of tag, and yes, a few students fully committed to burying themselves in the sandbox. We also welcomed some wonderful new faces into the
What a week it was! ☀️❄️ We kicked things off with beautiful spring sunshine — the kind that basically demands you drop everything and head outside — and drop everything they did. Students made the most of every warm moment before the sn
What a week! 🌊 Water balloon fights basically became a daily tradition (weather permitting), a student brought in a vintage reel-to-reel projector to screen a film for the community, and when the wind had other plans for pickleball, students just..
It was a wonderful short week here at Alpine Valley School after taking Monday off for President's Day! 🏔️ Here is a look at what students chose to do with their time this week in our mixed-age environment: 🔴 Students worked on fun animal masks in